John 13:1-17 1Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. 2And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him; 3Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; 4He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. 5After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. 6Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? 7Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. 8Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. 9Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. 10Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all. 11For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean. 12So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? 13Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. 14If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. 16Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. 17If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
John 13:4 (CJB) 4So he rose from the table, removed his outer garments and wrapped a towel around his waist.
How Can I Overcome?
63-0825M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
100 Jesus gave us the example, how to do it. Now we want to know how to overcome. Jesus told us how to do it. See? Humility! Girded Himself, took a towel, and washed the disciples’ feet and wiped them. The very God of Heaven humiliated Himself.
101 We don’t want to be humiliated. That’s the reason women don’t want their hair to grow out (See?); the reason they don’t want to dress like ladies should dress. Like, men don’t want to, see, it’s the same thing. They don’t. They get humiliated. But, Jesus, constantly! Look Who He was. Greatness! I’m going to say something. Greatness humiliates itself. Great humbles itself. Greatness!
The Worst Sinner In The City
56-0218E · Minneapolis, Minnesota
33 Becoming a footwasher, taking the towel and girded Himself and washed the disciples’ feet, said, “Let him that’s great among you be the servant of all.” That was His example. But us today, oh, hostile: “Yes, sir. I wouldn’t stoop to that fellow though; that old drunk, you know, I wouldn’t have nothing to do with him. Oh, I’m Doctor Jones.” See? That’s the reason we’re not getting anywhere. That’s the reason our pulpits are weak. That’s the reason today, we don’t have signs and wonders in our churches. That’s the reason today we don’t have an old fashion revival. We’re thinking we’re somebody when we’re nothing.
The Bible says when a man thinks him something when he’s nothing, he deceives himself. He knows nothing that he ought to know. And he ought to know that he’s a sinner.
The Pergamean Church Age
60-1207 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
281 The way—the way up is down. “He that humbles himself shall be exalted; he that exalts himself shall be abased.” Humbled himself. Don’t try to be a big something; try to be a little something, but be what you are. See? Be little in the sight of God, be little in your own sight, everybody else is above you.
282 Who could be greater than Jesus Christ who girded Himself and washed the disciples’ feet? A foot-washing Flunky, He become. The God of Heaven, the Creator of heavens and earth, washing dirty feet for fishermen (Oh!) with manure and stuff, and dust off the roads, where their garments had swept it up, and washing it off; a foot-washing Flunky, what He was. And then we think, “We’re somebody. We got to be Doctor, Ph.D., So-and-so.” Oh, my! That ain’t Christ. That don’t display the …lovely Jesus Christ. He become Servant to all. That’s right. Taught us an example that we should do to one another as He’s did unto us. Oh, that’s—that’s my Lord. What makes Him big, because He made Hisself little. See, that’s what made Him big.
Psalms 113:1-9 1Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. 2Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. 3From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’S name is to be praised. 4The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. 5Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high, 6Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth! 7He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; 8That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people. 9He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalm 18:35 (AMP) 35You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, and Your right hand has held me up; Your gentleness and condescension have made me great.
John 1:1-3 (AMP) 1IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. 2He was present originally with God. 3All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being.
John 1:14 (AMP) 14And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth. †
Ephesians 1:3-14 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 8Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; 9Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: 10That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 12That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 13In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Perfect Strength By Perfect Weakness
61-1119 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
319 And there Jesus had been stood against the evil, stood against those organizations, stood against those Pharisees; and become weak and submitted Himself unto death, and died like a sinner on the Cross, bearing our sins. The very Psalms, the very prophets that they believed in, had quoted (hundreds of years before) the very Words that He said at Calvary, and they failed to see it…
320 “My God,” said David, “my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” Psalms 22, “All my bones, they stare at me, not one of them is broke. They wag their head and say, ‘He trusted in others…He—He saved others, Himself He can’t save.’” And all the things that the prophets had said, was right there! And Jesus, dying, holding that Word, submitted Himself. God, Emmanuel, become so weak that He submitted Himself to the death, and to the grave, and His soul to hell. Weakness! But out of that complete surrender…came forth on that Easter morning, winding Its way from the lowest.
321 He was the Highest, and become the lowest. He come to the lowest people, went to the lowest city. And the littlest man in the town had to look down on Him**. Went from there to death, and from death to the grave, and from grave to hell; to the lowest that could be got, to the lowest hell that could be thought of, He went to it.**
322 But then, from there, God begin to raise Him up. Through Paradise, from there to the—to the tomb, and from the tomb to Glory, and so High that He has to look down to see Heaven. Exalted His thrones in the Heaven!
Forsaking All
62-0123 · Tempe, Arizona
151 He gave up His Sonship, between Him and the Father, to be made sin for us. Did you know that? “He knowed no sin; became sin for us. Our sins was placed upon Him.” He gave up the Sonship, to become sin, now He can make sinners sons. Amen. That’s the good part: take sinners and make sons, when He give up His Sonship to become sin, now He takes sinners and makes sons out of them. Amen. What a privilege! Yes, sir.
153 Now, yes, sir, He—He gave His strength. He became weak, that He might be our strength. He is our all-sufficient Strength. We don’t need no other strength but the strength of the Lord Jesus. “He is my Strength from day to day. Without Him I would fall,” said the poet. How wonderful!
*2 Corinthians 5:17-18 17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18And all things are of God, who hath *RECONCILED us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of *reconciliation;
**2 Cointhians 5:19 19To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Living, Dying, Buried, Rising, Coming
59-0329S · Jeffersonville, Indiana
30 What a terrible thing that sin does, it separates man from God! And He was the sin offering that had to be offered for our sins. And He was separated from the Presence of God. Sin had separated Him. God placed our sins upon Him, and He was separated from God, and that’s why He cried, “Why hast Thou forsaken Me?” And because He was forsaken, and had taken this place, and seen His people, that He was come to be their Saviour and to offer them Life, they had rejected Him, and it grieved Him, so, till He was so broken-hearted until the Blood and water, and the chemicals of His body, separated.
Show Us The Father
55-0625 · Zurich, Switzerland
51 Now, when He was here on earth, He said He was God. He acted like God. He preached like God. He healed like God. He died like a man, but He raised again like God. “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.” Do you believe that? Thank you.
Isaiah 53:1-12 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Conference With God
59-1220M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
122 God dwells in humility. Not in pomp; that’s always been the devil’s idea. God comes in humility. “That’ll be a sign.” Not a lesser God, but a Man. A Man! He cried like a baby, when He was a Baby. He played in the streets, like a boy, when He was a Boy. He worked in the carpenter shop with Joseph, as a Man at work. He eat when He was hungry. He sweated when He was hot. He cried when He was sorrowful. He was a Man.
123 “This will be a sign to you. God will dwell with you, in a humble…” Not a great, big uppity-up man, but a little, low Man with no background. A sign! That’s a death stroke to the devil, right there. That’s a death stroke to every denomination and pomp, and all pomp and glory of this world. It’s a death stroke, that the God of Heaven chose to come that way.
124 That’s what happened at the conference. It had to be decided. That’s the way He chose to come. He didn’t have to come that way. He was the God of Heaven, but He chose to come as a Baby. He chose to come that way. That’s what happened at the conference in Heaven.
125 Let me just call another, or two, conferences. Let me call this one. There was a time…after a perfect life of thirty-three and a half years had been lived. A Man who wanted to live as much as I want to live, as much as you want to live. A Man Who had something to live for, brethren that He loved, people that He loved, sunsets that He liked to see. Remember, Jesus was a Man. God was in Him.
126 There come a time, where the Spirit that was leading the Lamb, the Dove.
127 There had to be a conference between the Lamb and the Dove. And they formed a place to set it. After the supper that night, they crossed over a little brook, Cherith, and, or somewhere. And went across the brook, and went into a garden called Gethsemane. They had to have a conference. God and Christ had to talk it over. The Lamb and the Dove had to sit together. It was the Dove that had to talk to the Lamb, and it was the Lamb’s death.
128 Now, when they sit by that rock, and all the Angels come down from Heaven, to listen in to this conference. Oh! There was Gabriel, Michael, Woodworm, all the thousands of them, sitting around the rock.
Perfection
56-0610 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
52 Even on a stormy night, said, “The birds has nests, and the foxes has holes, but I don’t even have a place to lay My head.” The highest of all heavens of Heaven, become the lowest of all lows. Even to the animal life, was privileged, to Him, above Him, as far as comforts of life.
53 Not only that, but, in His death, He suffered a death like no one ever suffered; never, in man, ever suffered with such a broken heart till His Blood and water separated before His death.
Living, Dying, Buried, Rising, Coming
59-0329S · Jeffersonville, Indiana
30 What a terrible thing that sin does, it separates man from God! And He was the sin offering that had to be offered for our sins. And He was separated from the Presence of God. Sin had separated Him. God placed our sins upon Him, and He was separated from God, and that’s why He cried, “Why hast Thou forsaken Me?” And because He was forsaken, and had taken this place, and seen His people, that He was come to be their Saviour and to offer them Life, they had rejected Him, and it grieved Him, so, till He was so broken-hearted until the Blood and water, and the chemicals of His body, separated.
**Hebrews 4:14-16 14Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 16Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Philippians 2:5-8 5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8And being found in fashion as a man, he *HUMBLED* himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Adoption #2
60-0518 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
90 When He last cried, “Eli! Eli! My God! My God!” That was a man. “Why hast Thou forsaken Me?”
91 [In the garden of Gethsemane, the anointing left Him, you know, He had to die as a sinner.] He died a sinner, you know that; not His sins, but mine and yours. That’s where that love come in, how He took mine! Oh, hallelujah, how He took mine!
The Unveiling Of God
64-0614M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
77 Now, when It said here that He emptied Himself, or poured out, now, we would think like this, that He “vomit up,” the English word of emptied, or poured out from Him, see, something went out of Him that was different from Him. But the word [kenos,]{.mark} in the Greek, does not mean that He “vomit up,” or some…His arm went off, or His eye went out, another person.
78 That is, He changed Himself, He “poured Himself into,” (Amen!), into another mask, into another form. [Not another person] went out of Him, called the Holy Spirit, but It was He Himself. You get it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] He Himself poured Himself into the people. “Christ in you!” How beautiful, how wonderful, to think, God pouring Himself into the human being, into the believer. “Pour out!” It was a part of His drama, to do so.
God, all the fullness, all the Godhead bodily was in this Person, Jesus Christ. He was God, and God alone. Not a third person or a second person, or a first person; but the Person, God veiled in human flesh.
The Unveiling Of God
64-0614M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
238 Notice, all the Glory that is in God is in the Word. All the blessings that’s in God is in the Word. It’s hid, to the unbeliever, by traditions. See what I mean? But It’s all in Christ. All that God was, He emptied Himself, [“kenos,”]{.mark} and came into Christ; and we, into Christ, are behind the veil.
239 “Well, I’m into Christ,” you say. And then believe there is three Gods? Baptize in the name of “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost”? Believe in all these traditions and things that you believe in, of the elders? No, you’re still behind the veil. See? Come into the veil. He, Christ, is the Word.
The Maniac Of Gadara
54-0720A · Chicago, Illinois
63 And He put them all out. And there the outside was…What is the Holy Spirit to speak for? It’s when you’re in trouble. When the church is in trouble, that’s when a message goes forth to correct the thing.
Notice, and then when Jesus there, when all on the outside was making fun of Him and everything, then He was possessed with the power. He spoke in another language and said out into the spirit world, and called the spirit of a dead girl back again by speaking in tongues.
And when He was on the cross, when His disciples had forsaken Him, when His Church had forsaken Him, when His people had forsaken Him…He was forsaken by God and man, hanging on the cross. He died speaking in tongues. That’s right. Brother, don’t you call that jibber-jabber.
Five Definite Identifications Of The True Church Of The Living God
60-0911E · Jeffersonville, Indiana
106 And you poor Nazarenes called them a bunch of “tongues” people. You wouldn’t even set in church with them. Ain’t that awful? What you going to do when you get to Heaven? Jesus died, speaking in tongues. They said, “He spoke, and He spoke in another language.” Sure. He did. “He spoke in Hebrew.” He did not. That’s not Hebrew writing. He spoke in a Heavenly language.
**Isaiah 53:5-7 5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and *the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7He was *OPPRESSED, and he was *AFFLICTED, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
**Isaiah 53:8-10 8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he *STRICKEN. 9And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, [he shall see his seed], he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
The Masterpiece
64-0705 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
106 His life matched all the peoples. It pleased God to smite Him. And, now, why did He smite Him? For the same cause He had to smite Adam.
107 Now we see Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted, the perfect Lamb for sinner**—sinners slain**, a perfect Masterpiece.
The Identified Masterpiece Of God
64-1205 · Yuma, Arizona
127 And now what made Him exactly, to me, the—the Masterpiece to me and to you, is because God smote Him. He smote Him at Calvary. If He hadn’t been smitten…No matter how many dead He had raised, how great He had preached, what His great life was, what His claims was, He was proven there. He was so pleased, God was, till He was the only Man that ever stood on the face of the earth that God could smite for the rest of them. That perfect One was smitten for the imperfect. The whole creation that had fell, through Adam, it was redeemed through Jesus Christ. God’s Masterpiece has stood the test. How did He do it? By the Word. “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”
**Isaiah 53:10 10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
**Isaiah 53:11 11He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
**Isaiah 53:12 12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
The Masterpiece
64-0705 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
101 But let us not forget that in the beginning when He smote the side of Adam, He took something from his side.
Now, the smiting of Christ was for a cause, that He might take from Him, one, to be a family, the Bride; He might take Him a Bride. So when His Masterpiece was perfected, then He had to smite It, to take from Him; not another piece, not another creation, but of the same creation.
102 My brother, don’t think bad at this, but think a minute. If He took from Him, the original creation, to make the Bride for Him, He never made another creation. He took a part of the original creation. Then, if He was the Word, what must the Bride be? It’s got to be the original Word, living God in the Word.
Christianity Versus Idolatry
61-1217 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
191 We are made partakers of His holiness. We, in His image, we are living images of a living God. Then, dead to self, raised with Him, (now listen, listen to this), His Word made flesh again in us. (Oh, Brother Neville!) Look! What is it? Not the mythical, imaginary god sitting out there, but the living God. What is the living God? The Word in you making Itself real. Whew! Glory to God! Oh, I know you think I’m a holy roller, maybe I am. But, oh, brother, do you see it? Triumph over every denomination, triumph over all paganism, a living God made manifest in a living temple, and the Word of God (which is God) is made flesh in you. Why? You’re seated in Heavenly places, triumphed over all things, in Christ Jesus. Amen!
Oh, I just love It. I have to skip something and go on.
A Paradox
62-0128A · Phoenix, Arizona
83 Every time you see a man receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, it’s a paradox, how the God of Heaven makes Hisself known in this man, talking through him, working through him, living through him. It’s a paradox. And we are in the image of God, and God took His Own images and brought Himself into the image of His Own image that He made. A paradox.
Identification
63-0123 · Phoenix, Arizona
119 You know, in the heathen world, how the heathens put up an idol and they prostrate themselves before the idol, [and work themselves into such an emotion till they believe they can hear that idol speak back to them]. It’s a mental affair, but how vice versa from God’s Truth.
120 God wants you. He don’t want an idol. You are the living image of God. And you prostrate yourself before God, and He fills you with Himself, and you express Him as a looking glass, His Church.